Kamakura

Discover the National Treasure tantō signed Yoshimitsu, a Kamakura-period masterpiece by Awataguchi Tōshirō Yoshimitsu, treasured by the Tachibana samurai family for nearly 700 years at Tachibana Museum in Yanagawa, Fukuoka.

Held at the Kyushu National Museum, this Important Cultural Property is a Yuan-dynasty Chinese tea bowl from the 13th–14th century. A rare kiln effect at the boundary of its black and brown glazes produces a silvery 'rainbow' band that gave the bowl its name. Its provenance traces back to the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

A 3.35-meter granite pagoda on a Dazaifu hill, raised in the 13th century on the site of the lost Hannya-ji temple, its four faces carved with Sanskrit syllables.

Discover Fumon-in Main Hall, an Important Cultural Property in Asakura, Fukuoka. Founded by the monk Gyoki in 747 and rebuilt in the late Kamakura period, it is the oldest surviving wooden building in Fukuoka Prefecture.

Encounter the Nikko Ichimonji, a 13th-century Bizen Fukuoka Ichimonji masterpiece and National Treasure at Fukuoka City Museum, once treasured by the Hōjō clan and Kuroda family.